Engineer Manager

Resume: Anthony J. Foiani Contact

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Objective

I solve problems.

Ideally, I'd help the visionaries and business people properly define the problem. Next, I'd collaborate with business and architectural colleagues to scope and bound the problem. Finally, I would help implement a solution to the current problem one that would scale to solve the given problem as well as provide headroom to handle the next challenge.

Experiencehttp://foiani.com/Foiani LLC

Albuquerque, New Mexico; July 2009 present

http://www.iaea.org/IAEA Universal Non-Destructive Assay Processor: Architect / Implementor

Adapted Linux and supporting libraries to custom embedded processors

Designed and built custom software for realtime data acquisition

Provided high security data transfer and device configuration

Wrote and generated in-depth API / extension documentation

Gave guidance to a team that was otherwise new to Linux and many other current technologies (XML, HTTP, TLS, NTP, etc)

http://www.yahoo.com/Yahoo! Inc.

San Diego, California; October 2004 July 2009

Worldwide Data Distribution System: Architect / Implementor

Adapted existing system for serving data to hundreds of thousands of nodes around the world

Documented a substantial corpus of existing code

Created system for publishing that documentation to company standards

Mobile Entertainment Provisioning: Architect / Implementor

Put http://music.yahoo.com/Yahoo! Music onto mobile phones:

Multi-tier architecture (J2EE, Tomcat, AXIS, AJP)

Multi-client presentation (WAP, XHTML, JSP)

Dealt with non-traditional (Mobile vs. PC) browser factors: memory, display, latency, bandwidth

Used custom packaging / deployment technology (similar to RPMs); became site expert on technology (out of 70-100 engineers)

Pushed technology envelope within a large company

Early Linux (RHEL4) adopter

Early J2EE (Apache/Tomcat/AXIS) adopter

Backoffice Data Reorganization: Manager / Architect / Implementor

Re-organized some 60TiB of business-critical live data

Coordinated 10 people doing various aspects of necessary work

Wrote before/after comparison scripts to validate the operation

Designed and wrote helper utilities to make the motion transparent to client processes

Miscellaneous Knowledge Sharing

Shared my in-depth knowledge of Perl and Unix on company mailing lists

Used my experience with computer graphics to facilitate a &ldquot;add your own map mashup on the Y! Maps site

Provided an otherwise-unconnected coworker with code to perform graph searches (his SLA was 200ms; my solution performed the search in less than 110ms). This was against a 200k node / 500k edge directed graph

Made contributions to open-source packages (e.g., Log::Log4perl version 1.19

)

MusicMatch.com

San Diego, California; November 2001 acquired by Yahoo! in October 2004

Digital Audio Processing Engineer

Inherited and extended a distributed audio processing system:

Heterogeneous: Unix command/control, Windows worker model

Wrote DSP core in C++

Handled multiple standards (MP3, AAC, WMA; DRM / no-DRM; tagging)

Managed some 60+ terabytes of audio data and associated metadata

Helped build metadata engine for popular and classical audio tracks

Helped evaluate various encoding / processing schemes

Database Application Programmer

Oracle (versions 8, 9, 10)

DDL, DML, bulk loading

mod_perl administrative interface (including DHTML features

)

Streaming Digital Audio Engineer

Generated weekly metadata builds providing streaming audio to 30M desktops

Optimized legacy system to accomodate 100x original design capability

Helped scale related subsystems

Extended and optimized browser-based administration tools

Miscellaneous Knowledge Sharing

Existing systems, due to experience with local installs

Unix / shell / Perl questions, due to in-depth knowledge

Database optimization requests, due to combination of domain and SQL expertise

http://www.hp.comHP (via http://www.volt.com/staffing/tempstaffing.cfmVolt Technical Services

)

Fort Collins, Colorado; October 1999-August 2001

Web Services: Programmer

Created a set of DHTML widgets (both client- and server-side)

Added Excel export capability

Improved accessibility and usability through proper HTML/CSS usage and competent graphic design

Optimized SQL queries

Requirements Analysis: User Liaison, Programmer

Reduced time analysts spent doing "monkey work"

Observed for a few days

Reduced multiple many-hour tasks to VBA macros (

Rocky Mountain Automated Systems

Denver, Colorado; September 1998-September 1999Programming

Wrote web-based GIS / Map Render (written as ISAPI DLL)

Created web services (Apache, Win32)

Worked with embedded systems (GPS)

Provided language support to other programmers (C++, STL, Java)

Systems Administration

Secured the office network (VPN, NAT, DMZ)

Implemented many network services (DHCP, DNS, Mail)

Installed and upgraded servers and development boxes (Linux, Win32)

qwest.comUS West (via http://www.modis.com/Modis)

Denver and Boulder, Colorado; February 1997 - July 1998Legacy Systems

: Interface Programmer

Wrote Perl scripts for interfacing with legacy mainframe applications. This supported database integrity and inventory/use verification efforts.

Developed two distinct libraries for abstracting the interaction with the legacy applications.

Worked with domain experts to automate portions of the database cleanup effort.

Participated in requirements discovery and initial design efforts on other automation / error reduction projects.

Document Analyzer: Architect, Programmer

Did significant design and implementation work on a C++ program which manipulates PDF files. Its abilities include:

Recovering document structure information (headers / footers, section headings, etc) from files in http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/main.htmlAdobe Acrobat (PDF) format. This uses a large set of built-in heuristics as well as hints provided in a run-time configuration file.

Generating human- and machine-readable output of the reconstructed table of contents. Generate similar output for documents which have pre-existing bookmark entries.

Inserting generated table of contents back into the PDF file and save in an optimized format suitable for network byteserving.

Highlights of my work on this project included:

Improving code: replaced hand-written, ad-hoc routines with standard solutions; improved modularity and code re-use; streamlined internals and increased self-documention of the code.

Verifying improvements: implemented an extensive test suite to verify all changes made to the source.

Interacting with the environment: used a proprietary toolkit for PDF file parsing; inferred requirements from calling scripts.

Increasing code usability by adding: new features; extensive run-time-selectable debugging; and thorough documentation of the external interface.

Using a large, custom-built revision control system based on RCS and extensive Perl scripts.

Miscellaneous

Supported co-workers by supplying expertise with Perl, C, C++, and Emacs (and XEmacs).

Centera Information Systems, Inc

.

Boulder, Colorado; August 1995 - October 1996

Application Analysis: Refactoring

Performed an extensive redesign of an object-oriented data visualization package which included:

Windows multiple document interface (MDI) shell, implemented in Borland's ObjectWindows framework;

Command line interface (using a custom interpreted language);

Multiple interactive graphics windows; and

Graphics, mathematics, statistics, and utility functions.

This redesign included:

Factoring existing code into four distinct functional areas;

Eliminating duplicate code;

Enforcing consistent conventions across 60k lines of preexisting code;

Documentating preexisting code; and

Planning extensions for refinements after initial release.

Graphics Programming

Designed, implemented, and integrated an extensible 3D graphics pipeline into an existing application. This object-oriented pipeline has the following abilities:

Extremely flexible modeling, including generalized mathematic and cartographic transforms;

Encapsulation of input and output primitives in C++ objects;

Flexible rendering, from wireframe to Phong shading;

Support for both bitmap and vector objects; and

Datapoint and location picking.

Miscellaneous

Performed assorted system administration tasks on Unix (Linux, SunOS), Windows 3.11, Windows NT 3.5, VMS, and the digital PBX.

Provided technical support on hardware systems for clients.

Contract ProgrammingAdvanced LaTeX Typesetting

Various Locations; 2008

-present

Worked purely over the internet

Typeset advanced mathematical formula

Modified existing formats to meet various specifications

Agents4All.com

Ventura, California; 1999

Worked purely over the internet

Wrote web spider with multiple-DB back-end; Perl, C++, SQL (Oracle and MySQL)

http://www.tummy.com/Tummy.com

Fort Collins, Colorado; 1998-2000

Provided expert assistance in Perl, C++, and mathematics

Previous Jobs

As with many sections on this resume, some of the older entries have been transferred to the cv.html#experiencehistorical file.

PublicationsThe Perl Journal

http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol4_3/tpj0403-0013.htmlA Web Spider in One Line, Fall 1999 (republished in http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tpj2/The Best of The Perl Journal, Volume 2: Web, Graphics, & Perl/Tk Programming)

SkillsComputer Languages

Expert:

Java, Perl, C++ (and Boost), ANSI and K&R C, Oracle SQL, Emacs-Lisp, Shell Scripts, Makefiles, Regular Expressions

Skilled:

Python, Tcl, awk, sed, HTML, expect-style Scripts, VBA

Operating Systems and Platforms

Microsoft Windows (since 3.1): power user, some programming

Linux (since 1995): extensive programming, both x86 and various embedded processors

Various other *nix systems: Solaris, SunOS, HP/UX, AIX

Mac OS X (since 2001): power user, unix-mode programming

X11 (since 1990 or earlier): power user

Various older mainframe, micro, and embedded systems

Data Representation and Interchange

Expert:

XML, HTML, CSV, PKI, various binary encodings

Skilled:

JSON, Character Encodings, Compression Algorithms, Archive Formats

Some Experience:

Protocol Buffers

Source Code/Configuration Management

Expert:

SVN, CVS

Skilled:

git, Mercurial (hg)

Networking Protocols

IP, TCP, UDP, BSD Sockets API

HTTP, TLS, SSH, Telnet, FTP

NTP, TFTP, SNMP, SMTP

Related Skills

Seminar planning and presentation

Graphic layout and design (desktop publishing, document processing, typography, print preprocess)

Broad knowledge of common networking hardware and software

Employee scheduling

Typing: 80+ wpm

Competency in German

Ancient Skills

In addition to these skills, I've had the opportunity to work with and play with many different systems, languages, and types of hardware over the years. I've filed these as cv.html#skillsarchaeological skills; they probably won't be applicable to most modern installations, but they continue to show my flexibility and adaptability. (Not to mention that fellow dinosaurs will hopefully get a chuckle out of the list

EducationBachelor of Science Bachelor of Science

in Computer Science and Math, with a minor in German.

New Mexico State University

Las Cruces, New Mexico

Date of graduation: May 1995

GPA: 3.00

out of 4.00

Honors

Best Technical Responder, Communications Group, AIX Technical Support, Fall 1992.

Eagle Scout, Boy Scout Troop 176; Active in Boy Scouts, 1978-Present.

Activities

Occasional Participant, http://www.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl-porters/Perl5 Porter's List, Summer 1997-2001.

Occasional Participant, EFNet IRC #perl channel, Spring 1997-2001.

Assistant Scoutmaster, Boy Scout Troop 176, Yucca Council, Spring 1990-Spring 1995.

Production Assistant, NMSU's http://crl.nmsu.edu/users/madavis/ANG/ANG.htmlArs Nova Guild experimental art troupe. Fall 1988-Spring 1995.

Volunteer DJ, http://www.nmsu.edu/Campus_Life/KRUX/public_html/index.htmlKRUX-91.5 FM, Spring 1993-Spring 1995.

Volunteer DJ Trainer, KRUX-91.5 FM, Spring 1994.

Computer Consultant (and Roadie) to http://ulcermusic.com/ULCER, Summer 1993-Summer 1995.

Various cv.html#activitiesactivities from my distant past.

Interests

I have a fairly extensive list of interests in a interests.htmlseparate document. The main sections are:

interests.html#computersComputers

interests.html#bicyclingBikes

interests.html#readingBooks

interests.html#musicMusic

interests.html#communityCommunity Service

References References are available upon request.

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